Spot lamp for vehicles



Mardi 3, 1931'. R H, HUMMER-r 1,794,960

sPoT LAMP Foa VEHICLES Filed sept. 13, 1929 F4. vgmL 7( lm/fw BY /Mf M #a A TTORNEY Patented Mar. 3, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT yOFFICE:

ROBERT H. HUMMERT, 0F DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THExS. H. THOMSON MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO SPOT LAMP FOB. VEHICLES Application filed September 13, 1929. SeriallNo. 392,355.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in spot lamps for vehicles.

It is one of the principal objects of my invention to provide extremely simple and attractive bracket means for easily attaching a spot lamp to a vehicle without drilling or tapping holes to receive fastening elements for it. The bracket is particularly adapted for attaching the spot lamp to open cars where the windshield posts are fitted in hollow bosses on the cowl. By merely removing the hex nut from the lower threaded end of a post, the ear on the bracket may be fitted on the post and the nutimmediately reapplied to the latter to securely hold the bracket,

and the spot lamp carried by it, on the car.

The above operationof attaching the spot lamp to the automobile does not require the drilling or tapping of a hole or holes in any part of the vehicle, since the bracket is applied to an element already on the car, to wit, a windshield post, and is held in place by another existing member such as the hex nut on the lower end of that post.

It is thus possible to send out my spot lamp as an assembled unit ready to put on a velu-i cle, whereas with other inner-controlled spot lamps it is necessary to take them apart to` mount them on the posts of a car.

vide for the spot lamp, a control knob whose rear face bears a suitable monogram.

Other important and incidental objects will be brought out in the following specification and particularly set forth in the subj oined claims.

control knob, showing a monogram thereon.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a detailed description of my invention, the numeral 1 designates a spot lamp housing trol knob 5is rotatively mounted. In the rear face of this knob 5 there is molded an insert 6 bearing a monogram,-inbthis instance the letter D. This monogram may be of any appropriate kind applied in any suitable manner to the knob.

For the purpose of easily, quickly and firmly attaching the spotlamp assembly, without taking it apart, to an open type of automobile, I have provided the following bracket member. This member preferably comprises a casting 7 of cylindrical form having an-axial hole 8 extending entirely through it. Integral with, and projecting outwardly from the outside surface of the rear portion of the member 7, is a lug 9. At its lower end this lug merges into a flat horizontal ear 10 formed with a hole 11. (See Figures 1 and 3.) Formed at each side of the vertical portion of the lug 9 is a flange 12 having a hook shaped recess 13. A hole 14 is formed in the j cylindrical portion of the member 7 between t e` flanges 12, 12 to receive a light wire 15 that passes into the casting 7 from the recess 13 in a iange 12 thereon. (See Figure 1.) It is another obj ect of my invention to prolamp assembly to an automobile as illustrated in Figure 2. As shown in the latter figure, the bracket 7 is secured to the lower threaded end of a windshield post 16. This post projects through a hollow boss 17 formed on the cowl 18, and receives on its lower threaded end a hex nut 19.

To attach the bracket 7 to the post 16, it is only necessary to remove the nut 19 and to slide the ear 10 over the exposed part of the post until it engages the lower end of the boss 17. The nut 19 is then applied to the lower threaded end of the post and turned to press the ear 10 on the bracket firmly against the lower end of the boss 17, thus securing the latter, and the lamp assembly which it carries, tightly on the windshield post without drilling or tapping a hole of any kind in it.

- For the purpose of locking the spot lamp assemblyon the post 16, various means may f be employed. In the present instance I provide in the heX nut 19 two radial holes which register with a diametric hole in the post 15 to receive a pin 2O formed with a head on one end and provided` in its other end with I' part, comprisinga horizontal, tubular memu ber, a lug; inclinin'g outwardly from said member betweellitsends, and a flat hori'zonytal yearV on the'- lower end of: said' lug, and i formed withV a hole to' fit-the downwardly a hole to receive a padlock 21. l

j Havingdescribed my invention, I claim: I. A' bracket for securing` a spot lampl to; a

vehicle having a' downwardly projecting l part, comprising a horizontal, tubular mem- Y p. ber, and a radial ear on said member between its ends for attachment to saidjdownwardly projecting part.

, ,2. A bracket for securing a .spot lamp to a vehicle having al downwardly Vprojecting projeeting'partof'said vehicle for the pur- Y pose speci/hed.

3. A bracket Jfor securing a spot-lamp to a vehicle having;` a vertical windshield post, comprising a horizontal, tubular member, a

downwardly inclined lug` on the latter be- Y ltween its ends, a flat, horizontal ear on :the v flower `end of said lug and containing a hole to tit the lower endofthe post, and a nut 1 adaptedfto be applied-to the post below ythe ear for' the purpose specihe'd.

4. A brackettfor securing a spot lamp to a vehicle having' a verticalwin'd'shield post,

.comprising a horizontal, tubular member, an

vear on the latter formed with a hole to lit saidpost, 'a nutadapted to be applied. to-said post below the-ear, and means for llocking y v tube and 'a control knobfapplied-to its other said.' nut tothe' post after the ear hasbeen attached thereto.` Y

5; They combination with ay vehicle having afdownwardly proj 'ectingl windshield post, of a horizontal tubular vbracket,secured to said post, a tube projecting through said'v bracket, V v

a lamp housing carried by one .endgof said rn'y hand this whereofvr I `have hereunto i set 11th day of September, 1929. ROBERT H. HUMMERT.

Y In; Witness 

